Chapter V - Early
Public Health Regulations and the Plague
Early Regulations, 1498 - Notification made compulsory - Convictions -
Isolation - Cleansing infected clothing and houses - Buriers of the dead
- Charities for plague-stricken poor - Appointment of a Medical Officer
- Recurrences in the XVIth Century - Immunity in Aberdeenshire,
Sutherlandshire and Liddesdale.

Chapter VI - The
Surgeons of Edinburgh in the Seventeenth Century
Advance of the Guild of Surgeons and Barbers - Surgeon-Apothecaries
Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh incorporated - Double and Triple
qualification - Instruction in Anatomy - Convening House built New
Surgeons' Hall - Pitcairne and Monteath - Eliot, first "Professor of
Anatomy" - The Monros.

Chapter VII - General
Practice in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Impediments to progress Anderson's Scots Pills - Professional fees -
Military Surgeon's emoluments - Richard Wiseman, "the father of English
surgery" - The new cure of fevers - Pharmacopoeia issued by the Royal
College of Physicians, Edinburgh - Animal substances introduced -
Irregular practice by mountebanks - Medical literature - Smallpox
epidemics - Inoculation adopted in Scotland - Sibbens and croup -
Account-book of Dr. William Cullen - The whey cure - Description of an
18th century Scottish country practitioner.

Chapter IX - The
Medical School of Aberdeen
Foundation - "Mediciners" at King's College - Diploma of M.D. degree -
Medical Officer of the Burgh - Skeen's treatise on the plague - The
Gregorys - Marischal College - Lecturers on medicine - "Burning of the
burking-house" - Aberdeen Medical Society - The University of Aberdeen.

Chapter XIV - The
Glasgow School in the first half of the Nineteenth Century
Glasgow Royal Infirmary - C.M. Glasgow - Progress of Medical School -
Hunter's Museum - The Andersonian College - The Medico-Chirurgical
Society - The Botanic Garden - Professorships of Midwifery and Surgery -
Joseph Lister Chair of Chemistry - First laboratory devoted to chemical
research - The Anatomy Act - Allen Thomson - Chairs founded by Queen
Victoria - Easton's Syrup - List of Teachers in the Medical School of
Glasgow.

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